Chaffers Quotes & Sayings

The breeze and the dew make tranquil the clear dawn;
Behind the curtain there is one who alone is up betimes.
The orioles sing and the flowers smile -
Whose then, after all, is the Spring? — Li Shangyin

Our rulers rule by consent, which means that we like having them as rulers, if they do what we want them to do. — Terry Pratchett

Nothingness
... there in this place
where nothingness takes
but for the glimmer
a steadfast shimmer
all would be consumed ... — Muse

I just need you to take a leap, to see that I'll catch you. I won't let you fall. — C.C. Brown

Sometimes it rained, but mostly it was just dull, a land without shadows. It was like living inside Tupperware. — Bill Bryson

Integrity is never a given. It is a quality that can only be proven over time. — Gary Hopkins

I was starting to realize how much the presence of a child could make adults act more like adults. — Karen White

I don't think you should have sex with anyone unless you love them.I think you should just wait for the person you'rein love with. — Justin Bieber

Nicholas: One of the oldest secrets of alchemy is that every living thing, from the most complex creatures right down to the simplest leaf, carries the seeds of its creation within itself.
Josh: DNA. — Michael Scott

All you have to do is utter the words, "I pledge myself to the goddess Artemis. I turn my back on the company of men, accept eternal maidenhood, and join the Hunt." Yes, you heard that right. Eternal maidenhood and — Rick Riordan

When I was about 12 or 13, my father gave me 'The Little Prince.' He was making sure that I knew it was a special book. I'd seen the name of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, but to me it seemed a very French name, and I was not excited about him as a person. — Peter Sis

What we give the world, we have borrowed from no one; it is ours. It may be taken from us, stolen from us, but imitated? - never. — Julien Green

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses. — J. Paul Getty

One who knows the Mississippi will promptly aver - not aloud, but to himself - that ten thousand River Commissions, with the mines of the world at their back, cannot tame that lawless stream, cannot curb it or confine it, cannot say to it, Go here, or Go there, and make it obey; cannot save a shore which it has sentenced; cannot bar its path with an obstruction which it will not tear down, dance over, and laugh at. — Mark Twain

One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes. — Verner Panton